EVALUATION OF SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN ACCESS CHANNEL OF SHAHID RAJAEE PORT

Sedimentation and erosion are the most important issues which cause serious problems in the port areas. The consequences of these phenomena are reduction of the service life of the port and unavoidable continual and costly dredging. Shahid Rajaei port (located at 56º04’E, 27º05’N near Bandar-e-Abbas in south of Iran.) is one of the most important ports and export and import gate of Iran. The aim of this study was to set up the hydrodynamic modeling of the area to estimate the sedimentation rate using MIKE21 ST. The main focus was investigation of the effectiveness of the rip-rap layer protection and addition of small external branches to the left and right arms of the breakwater on the sedimentation rate in the area.